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Good morning, and today is thursday, may 14th, 2015. Welcome to the rules committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is john avalos the chair of the committee, and joined to my right by vice chair supervisor tang and supervisor cohen and we are also joined by supervisor mar who has legislation here today. And the clerk of the committee is lisa, and madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes, make sure that silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices completed speaker carts and documents should be submitted, will appear on the june second agenda, unless others stated. S...

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Lines 1 through 7 is that there arent sufficient what is the word . Comments. There arent sufficient what . Commas, punctuation. Okay. To read that and try to interpret it and you know we all try to do statutory construction here, but others outside might look at it other ways. Can you just tell me where you would want to put commas . Although, i hate it maybe in the case, the passive voice might be better. So campaign financerelated filings reports or statements shall be filed by either a Draft Committee, or i mean, its just hard to read what that means for primarily formed committees support...

Mr. St. Croix would you like to introduce this agenda item . So during the summer days of the mayoral campaign, the most recent mayoral campaign, we had issues that presented themselves to us that were new to San Francisco in that there were campaign let me take that word back. There were committees organized to draft ed lee to run for mayor. He was at the time considered to be a caretaker who was to fill the vacancy until the next election could be held. There were at least three sump committees, i think maybe four and some of them raised good sums of money. And my concern was that they were ...

Were talking about. Okay. Anyway, it could possibly go there. Somewhere in that range. I think on the chapter 2 question, i would probably not change the burden. I think the standard of proof and burden to be kind of makes sense. That is what the whole basis of the chapter 2 versus 3 thing was. I think i would be better with three positive votes needed to make a finding that there was a violation. So even if it requires three votes to find a violation, you can still hold the person to the burden, if they didnt meet their burden, then you go the other way. Although it does play out in the same ...